Cast Gallery catalogue number: C217

Portrait head of Homer from a herm.

• Plaster cast: Height: 60cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble herm.
• This cast is taken from a modern bronze copy of the head in the Louvre, in which a modern base is substituted for the herm and the head is made to look down instead of straight forward.
• The head:
  • is a version of the head of a bronze original of about 200 BC.
• The herm:
  • was found in Rome.
  • is now in Paris, Musée du Louvre.